{
  "source": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/datasets/retailsalesindexinternetsales",
  "bulletin": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/bulletins/retailsales/september2026",
  "source_published": "2026-10-23",
  "checked_on": "2026-10-24",
  "latest_observation": "2026-09",
  "next_scheduled_release": "2026-11-20",
  "license": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "monthly_observations": 16063,
  "series_count": 73,
  "first_period": "2006-11",
  "last_period": "2026-09",
  "deduplicated_repeated_series_cells": 478,
  "source_workbook_sha256": "5ff930c71fd4455bbf1f86e53496d3e6b3bed6edae23f468358b1006d0dc02a3",
  "source_chart_sha256": "a1186bcdcab0014452207a58aa98d6e7e4b70723e82af0465ca26bcbe7756696",
  "observations_sha256": "c6edac7bf9457348aa73852e94ee01203efbac57e456f3aecef797eb361f39b9",
  "sector_changes": [
    {
      "category": "All retailing excluding Automotive fuel",
      "three_month_change_pct": -0.1,
      "month_change_pct": -0.4
    },
    {
      "category": "Food stores",
      "three_month_change_pct": 0.6,
      "month_change_pct": 0.5
    },
    {
      "category": "Department stores",
      "three_month_change_pct": -1.8,
      "month_change_pct": 0.6
    },
    {
      "category": "Other non-food stores",
      "three_month_change_pct": 2.1,
      "month_change_pct": 2.5
    },
    {
      "category": "Textile clothing & footwear stores",
      "three_month_change_pct": -4.9,
      "month_change_pct": 0.6
    },
    {
      "category": "Household goods stores",
      "three_month_change_pct": 7.9,
      "month_change_pct": 0.8
    },
    {
      "category": "Non-store retailing",
      "three_month_change_pct": -0.6,
      "month_change_pct": -1.9
    }
  ],
  "opposite_direction_categories": [
    "Department stores",
    "Textile clothing & footwear stores"
  ],
  "method": "Monthly level/rate rows only; revision tables excluded. Dedupe by official series code and month; reject conflicting duplicates. Blank and non-numeric cells remain absent. Six-decimal normalization removes Excel serialization artifacts. Source sheet/cell retained. All-retail aggregates and subgroups overlap; never sum them. Different units and seasonal-adjustment bases remain separate.",
  "limits": [
    "Survey estimates of aggregate retail spending, not individual online purchases, profit or causal discount response.",
    "Values at current prices are not inflation-adjusted volumes. Seasonal adjustment does not remove all uncertainty.",
    "Historical observations reflect the reviewed release vintage and may be revised. A recent collection date does not make every observation recent."
  ]
}